A growing body of research suggests that arts engagement can contribute to health and well-being, including in educational settings.
The basic income will still only benefit a minority of applicants to the scheme, causing some disquiet in the cultural sector.
On the settlement side, we must move away from sequential-needs thinking that relegates the arts to the bottom of the priority list.
Many arts graduate students aspire to become professors but Canada produces far more doctorates than available academic jobs.
New Zealand and B.C. each have a population just over five million. Can B.C. learn any lessons from what’s happened in that country?
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This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada.
The Society of We Are Canadians Too created Pancouver to foster greater appreciation for underrepresented artistic communities. A rising tide of understanding lifts all of us.
We would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. With this acknowledgement, we thank the Indigenous peoples who still live on and care for this land.
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